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Slicer

With Slicer, the drum loop can be cut into individual drum hits which can then be loaded into the Pads as normal samples.

A slice can be selected with the left mouse button. When selected, start and end of a slice can be changed with the Start/End slider. Moving a transient/onset marker over the other will delete that marker. Additional transient/onset markers can be created with the Shift + left-click on the loop.

The slices can be dragged and dropped onto the pads to populate pads or layers on a specific pad. Ctrl/Command + drag will take selected slice plus all the slices to the right of the selected, so for example, to drag all slices at once hold Ctrl/Command while start dragging first slice.

When dropping on pads, "Drag&drop on Pad Defaul" from preferences is respected, which can be temporarily switched with holding Alt/Option key.

First toolbar (top)
  • Slicer menu
    • Load Loop... - opens the system file browser
    • Remove all Slices - removes all slice indicators, only Start and End remain
    • Show file... - shows the currently loaded loop file in the system browser
    • Clear Slicer - removes the loop from Slicer

Slicing mode controls:

Transients mode - slicing will look at transients/onsets

  • Threshold - the Threshold knob will set the sensitivity when looking for transients/onsets
  • Length - the Length knob will set the minimum length of a slice

BPM mode - slicing will be processed with the beats per minute base

  • Sync - sync slicing bpm to free/host/stretch bpm
  • BPM - set the desired beats per minute
  • Division - additional divisions of a beat

Pads can be filled with Slices also via the button in the middle of the header, and next to the button is a menu for setting the way the pads will be filled. In Slice Thru Mode, when adding to Pad, each slice will be the size from the beginning of the slice to the end of the loop.

On the far right are controls for auto play loaded loop, preview volume and preview output.

Second toolbar

Stretching controls:

  • Stretch - stretching on/off
  • Stretch Mode - Normal, Smooth, Crisp
  • Stretch Ratio - ratio knob, it is also possible to manually enter a value with a mouse click
  • BPM - right mouse click will set stretching bpm to host bpm, with left mouse click you can manually enter a bpm value

The Attack and Decay controls are used to automatically transfer these values ​​to the MSEG of each created Layer when the Slices are transferred to the Pads.

On the right there is a sample file info and controls. First is the name of the loaded sample witch will on double-click open a Browser and select that sample file. There are also some buttons for fast loading sample from current folder. The far right are play and stop controls, and the ordinal number of the sample file in the total number of files in the current folder.